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Fast-Growing Small Manufacturers Transformed with Automated Inventory Control

  • October 25, 2019
  • Feature

By Thomas R. Cutler Only when a small manufacturer has a grasp on operation elements can the promise of lean manufacturing and continuous process improvement be realized

Epicor Strategy Empowers Digitalization for Small & Medium Manufacturers

  • by Bill Lydon
  • October 24, 2019
  • Feature

While many manufacturers are aware of the benefits of digitalization, it can be difficult to figure out where to begin, in order to reap those benefits. EPICOR has put together an architecture for companies, particularly small and medium manufacturers, to implement Industry 4.0, and Internet of Things conceptsy.

Rockwell Automation announces acquisition of MESTECH Services

  • October 2, 2019
  • News

MESTECH offers technology consulting services, solutions design and deployment, support, plant asset management, and staffing solutions for discrete, hybrid, and process applications across multiple industries including Life Sciences and Automotive.

Gourmet Mass Production

  • September 12, 2019
  • Feature

By Darcy Simonis, ABB Food and Beverage Gourmet food or haute cuisine is expected in high-end restaurants.Recently this style of cuisine has started to feed into daily cuisine choices, with more processed foods going gourmet. This article explains how manufacturers can get on board with this new trend.

Siemens helps Vietnamese car manufacturer produce first vehicles

  • September 6, 2019
  • Case Study

The VinFast plant in Hai Phong went live in June 2019 and has a total design capacity of 250,000 cars per year.The first vehicles have been E-Scooters, compact cars, sedans, and SUVs. These will be followed by battery electric passenger cars as well as electric buses.

The Meat Retreat

  • August 14, 2019
  • Feature

By Darcy Simonis, ABB Food and Beverage While many of us are cutting animal products from out diets, it is vital the manufacturers adapt and work closely with their customers to develop a transparent, secure and efficient process.

OSIsoft announces Michael Siemer as President

  • July 24, 2019
  • News

Siemer, an energy industry veteran with extensive experience in leveraging software technologies to transform complex industrial operations, comes to OSIsoft from Devon Energy Corporation

2018 Pharmaceutical Automation Roundtable (PAR) Insights – Survey

  • July 22, 2019
  • Feature

By Bill Lydon, Automation.com The PAR meetings to represent one of the most knowledgeable groups of automation professionals gathered in one place, at any one time, to discuss automation issues, and the 2018 event was no exception.

Food Date Confusion and Traceability: Reducing waste in food manufacturing

  • July 18, 2019
  • Feature

By Darcy Simonis, ABB This article discusses how food manufacturers can help reduce consumer food waste due to label confusion.

Rockwell Automation to help Lonza digitize pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities

  • July 17, 2019
  • News

The Switzerland-based company, founded in 1897 with approximately 15,500 employees, chose Rockwell Automation’s PharmaSuite Manufacturing Execution System (MES) software to digitize the operations in their manufacturing environments

What Eggs Can Teach Us About Traceability

  • September 10, 2018
  • Feature

By Shan Zhan, ABB Control Technologies In summer 2017, 15 EU states, Switzerland and Hong Kong were affected by the Fipronil contamination scandal. This article looks at what the scandal can teach food manufacturers about the importance of traceability processes.

Westfalia Technologies helps Heaven Hill enhance warehouse efficiency

  • September 6, 2018
  • Case Study

The combination of the AS/RS and layer pick system allows Heaven Hill to convey pallets from palletizing to storage and to truck-staging lanes, thereby streamlining the entire order fulfillment process.

Omnify Software helps upgrade manufacturing systems for Coghlin Companies

  • August 16, 2018
  • Case Study

As part of a corporate initiative, Columbia Tech and Cogmedix were both investing in new systems to help the companies grow, enhance consistency, and improve quality and traceability. This included upgrading their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system and adopting Manufacturing Execution System (MES) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems.

Smarter Tech and Safer Food: How is smart technology improving food safety?

  • August 15, 2018
  • Feature

By Robert Glass, Food & Beverage, ABB Food safety has been one of the top priorities for food manufacturers and consumers for many years. This article explains how smart technologies are helping manufacturers exceed food safety standards.

Move to Smart Automotive Manufacturing With Standardization

  • August 13, 2018
  • Feature

By Larry Smentowski, Rockwell Automation Smart manufacturing or Industry 4.0 initiatives present an opportunity to help all automakers address their challenges. But those initiatives will only be successful if automakers first have network, control and software standards in place.

HighJump partners with IWMS to help enhance operations for African manufacturer

  • August 9, 2018
  • Case Study

BIDCO Africa Limited, with HighJump and the support of iWMS, is gaining end-to-end supply chain transparency to improve workflows and adapt to its growth trajectory. This includes evolving operations with traceability and recall management, inventory management, tracking and shipping via FEFO/FIFO expiry dates, and worker productivity.

Hexagon AB announces acquisition of External-Array Software

  • August 3, 2018
  • News

With programming modes, customization capabilities and compatibility, External-Array’s solutions have helped the company establish an international reputation and a customer base in China.

Electric Vehicle Production: Life in the Fast Lane

  • July 27, 2018
  • Feature

By John Miles & Paolo Butti, Rockwell Automation Smart manufacturing strategies are helping today's manufacturers produce high-quality electric vehicles quickly, affordably and with minimal risk. We aren’t likely to see a slowdown anytime soon

Connect Group chooses Aegis Software's MES solution to enhance traceability

  • July 16, 2018
  • Case Study

With complex, critical products manufactured across multiple manufacturing sites, the challenge was to ensure manufacturing execution with the highest level of traceability, which could no longer be met by legacy tools.

Putting the AI into Maintenance

  • June 7, 2018
  • Feature

By Sean Robinson, Novotek UK & Ireland Over the past five years, the industrial sector has begun to see the value in digitalisation and has invested more in adopting it. This article explains how plant managers can make proactive maintenance even more effective with machine learning.